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Lower Ph and chlorine, do an AA treatment, then resume proper chlorine levels according to your cya level.

Have you dropped a bunch of chewable vitamin c tabs in one stained area? Sure looks like metal staining to my eye.

Full AA isn’t truly needed, spot use it what I recommend, it will eventually get rid of most staining. Using a sequestrant isn’t truly expensive over a summer, it’s a once a week dosing. Metals come from tons of sources, municipal water towers, municipal piping and especially well water. I...

Be Eagle eyed with your chlorine levels, watch your ph rise and adjust accordingly. Use a weekly dosing of a good sequestrant to try to keep in solution.

The top sequestrants are: ProTeam's Metal Magic Jack's Magic The Pink Stuff (regular) The Blue Stuff (fresh plaster) The Purple Stuff (salt)

It’s not bad but there are better ones out there. Using poly fill in your skimmer will capture some too.

I’m talking actual $$, say versus a heat pump $90 a month or gas?

Have you costed this out just how much per running hour?

First, years ago this site would jump all over anyone posting nonsense about phosphate removers, pucks, algaecide and metal sequestrants. Now it’s taken a softer look and is in fact more friendly toward open dialogue over newer information. This is what this forum is about imo, letting people...

I treat any pool above 1000 ppb. Part of my service includes crystal clear water or I eat the expense of clearing it up.

Interesting how this site has changed its views over the past 13 years. I for one use phosphate removers in all my pools. Yes it’s a bit of an add on to the clients but I think it’s well worth it should chlorine levels ever drop for whatever reasons.

If you are using pucks then the store isn’t that far off. Pucks will inevitably cause issues, that’s why they want weekly algaecide dosing and shocking. If none of your white pool parts are showing no brown colouring then you probably don’t need metal sequestrants.

Manganese is very common in my area. If you ever have to slam you will take it out of suspension and bam your pool looks green. Keep lots of AA handy but note too much will deplete your chlorine and then it’s the algae green.

CULator might work for you

Monsanto constantly fights any ban, some countries have succeeded. IMO we are poisoning our future for Corp profits. Cows get drugs so they don’t feel full and continue to eat, egg to broiler chicken used to be 9 weeks I believe, it’s now under 7.

I have a close relative that lived with us, with both, type1 at 14, celiac diagnosed at 21. Yup, I know of that vomiting, even cross contamination was brutal. She took a trip to Europe, couldn’t find gluten free in restaurants and said the heck with it. To her shock, zero symptoms. Upon...

Were you aware Celiac disease is predominantly a North American disease? Endocrinologists are convinced it’s cause by our over use of Glyphosate's. Go to some European countries and gluten free products don’t exist. We aren’t gluten allergic, we are glyphosate intolerant.

Powdered dichlor on a soft sponge. Poof gone.

I can only say from experience of using it thousands of times that it’s not accurate. They have a “recalibration” disk that is supposed to be used regularly and that didn’t change results. Plus if your chlorine is high, which you could detect with one titration test, you wasted a disk and the...

The spin disk was brought about to simplify testing at store level, plus its read out suggest what chemicals are required. So a relative new worker could run their water lab. I have personally found it to be incredibly inaccurate on ph, salinity and ch. Plus those disks are not cheap for pool...

Leebo, just what did you use and how much? What was your reading before you started? I know Richards new project keys in on reduced phosphates to help the cal hypo work better.

I see you read the article in Aqua magazine. There was little proof provided that phosphates wreak havoc on the cells, just anecdotal evidence. It’s almost impossible for most pool professionals to use TFP methods as most pools use pucks. There are thousands of pools out there with SWCG that...

What are you using to test? It will take some time to convert it over, a long time. Your best bet is drain and refill.

He is correct, continual addition of chlorine such as a SWCG will do, will spike your bromine. You could drain water until it’s 1’ above the shallow end, then refill. Just how much bromide remains is the question though.

If you haven’t done a complete refill, it’s still a bromine pool.

You need to clarify if the pool is now chlorine. If it’s bromine and you have pucks in it, they will just make the bromine active. Fresh refills of pools are required when converting over from bromine to chlorine. IMO it’s far easier to make your new hot tub a chlorine one. It’s much simpler...

No way I would let water go unfiltered to solar panels, I can see crud being pushed into those tiny openings. Asking for trouble imo. A separate pump for solar makes zero sense. The added cost of plumbing in lots of valves plus yet another pump to have bearings or seals go, nope, not the way to...

The added cost of going to a 3HP isn’t worth it, buy the proper sized pump. 1.5HP is plenty for your setup.

3HP is overkill imo

Why not use the pool pump, why add another? I’m sorry, but it makes zero sense imo. Your initial spend will be panels, piping and controller. How many panels depends on the sq footage surface area of your pool, shoot for your panel sq footage to be 60-80% of the pool. If doing DYI, I don’t see...